An evil which cankered later sampler ornamentation was a desire for novelty and variety.
In sampler ornamentationit is seldom used either in profile or in bud, but generally full face, and more often as a single than as a double flower.
The old stucco ornamentation had been painted a staring red; and a dealer in hams and sausages had his shop in the lower story.
The Irish artist was always more successful in designing and executing geometrical systems of ornamentation than in representing living figures.
Ornamentation is largely introduced into the text, and the first few words of each Gospel are so lavishly decorated and have initial letters of such size that in each case they occupy the whole of a page.
Its figure drawing and foliated ornamentation are among its most striking features.
Their ornamentation is chiefly of the cup-and-ring order, only a few having patterns composed of straight lines.
The ornamentation consists of a strongly incised line running downwards from the perforation with small branch lines directed alternately right and left.
One of the most noticeable features at first was the evident attempt at ornamentation on the part of the women, especially the older women who were to take active part in the proceedings.
We might add that only the older people took part in this dance, and that the ornamentation of the body is always a noticeable feature of their worship.
Natives, especially at this stage of their advancement, do not as a rule dress according to the weather, for to them clothing is more or less a matter of ornamentation and they don it accordingly.
In some respects the barbarous African's idea of ornamentation does not differ materially from that of her white sisters, the difference being one of degree rather than of kind.
As he expressed it: "We will give the workingman and his family ornamentation in their house.
He has also provided for ornamentation of a high class in designing the details of the structure.
The year 1684 saw the end of the ornamentation of the interior in the completion of the Hall of Mirrors.
Great skill has of late years been displayed in the ornamentation of glass such as is seen in public saloons, restaurants, &c.
Queen Victoria, set up at Winchester, in its main design and in the details of its ornamentation the most remarkable work of its kind produced in Great Britain, and perhaps, it may be added, in any other country in modern times.
The invention of colourless Bohemian glass brought in its train the practice of cutting glass, a method of ornamentation for which Venetian glass, from its thinness, was ill adapted.
Ornamentation by means of flower forms, whether closely imitated or conventionalized.
Armour generally became more massive, and the enrichment and ornamentation were very elaborate.
The only ornamentationto be found is at the entrance doorway, on the staircase, or in the chapel.
They were decorated internally with paintings in various bright colours, and the ornamentation was of metal work, bronze or the precious metals.
The ornamentation is in the style of the fourteenth century.
The quantity of admissible transgression of law varies with the degree in which the ornamentation involves or admits imitation of nature.
For instance in this matter of love of flowers; we have traced already, far enough for our general purposes, the mediaeval interest in them, whether to be enjoyed in the fields, or to be used for types of ornamentation in dress.
It was much used for the ornamentation of friezes and interiors, for the decoration of fictile vases, the borders of dresses, &c.
And, in the second place, the ornamentation is in the lost art of plaiting, of the beauty and difficulty of which we can hardly conceive till we attempt it.
The interlaced work which is found on some of the crosses is of the same character as the ornamentation in the early Irish MSS.
In regard to ear ornamentation the Penyahbongs are at least on a par with the most extreme fashions of the Dayaks.
Independent tools cut for theornamentation of the centre of panels and sides.
Prepare the leather as before described where the ornamentation is to come; but if the pattern is elaborate it must be worked first in blind.
The ornamentation was entirely in blind, both on the back and sides, and the tools used were of a very solid character.
The Umbrian frescoes were destroyed, and the baroque ornamentationwe now see, substituted.
Here they would have had a great deal to prepare, the spaces to plan, the Pope's directions to consider, the ornamentation of the windows and the niches for the martyred Popes to decide upon.
It soon became apparent that no one could cover the walls of palace or chapel with an ornamentation so rich and gay, so advantageous to the position, so homogeneous in character.
The smiling landscape, across which the visitors have journeyed, is seen through a perspective of elaborately drawn and decorated arches, on which some of those drawings of grotesque ornamentation can be discerned.
The Taj represents the most highly elaborated stage of ornamentation reached by the Indo-Mohammedan builders, the stage in which the architect ends and the jeweler begins.
In its magnificent gateway the diagonal ornamentation at the corners, which satisfied the designers of the gateways of Itimad-ud-doulah and Sikandra mausoleums is superseded by fine marble cables, in bold twists, strong and handsome.
In general shape and in ornamentationthese vases do not differ from the preceding.
The form is symmetrical, the ornamentation tasteful, and the surface highly polished.
The ornamentation is pretty evenly divided between plastic and flat forms.
The ornamentation is varied, and consists sometimes of parallel grooves, like that of the terramara pottery in North Italy (=Fig.
Pottery is of a greyish-black colour, well baked, and fashioned on the wheel, with anornamentation of a very unusual character (Nos.
On the supposition that this was intended to adorn the face of a wooden shield the cup must have been embedded in the wood, as it is clear that its concave side is the front, there being no ornamentation on the other.
The ornamentationconsists of finger and string marks, irregular scratchings with a pointed tool, raised knobs, perforations round the rim, together with dots and lines in various fantastic combinations.
The ornamentation on the upper part and the number of spiral twists on the stem are so varied that each fibula has a distinct individuality of its own, and no two specimens exactly alike have ever yet been found.
Ornamentation is not always confined to the outside of the vessel, as may be seen from =Fig.
These Slavish dishes are always without handles, but of well-burnt pottery, and when ornamented the ornamentation is in wavy lines running parallel to the rim forming the characteristic Wellenlinie.
Ultimately colouring materials were introduced which considerably enhanced the effect of ornamentation on the dishes.
Portion of an object with interlaced ornamentation (=Fig.
The pieces of pottery were very numerous, and usually exhibited ornamentation of an extremely early kind, amongst which chevron patterns similar to those found upon 'sepulchral urns' were conspicuous.
It weighs thirty-three ounces, and is covered with an ornamentation of figures in relief, some of which are gilt, representing an allegorical subject of the source of medicinal waters.
The ornamentation which surrounds the panels belongs to the sixteenth century" (Riano).
Riano calls it "a delicate ornamentation of cloisonne work, which encloses a substance resembling red glass.
The rest of the ornamentation consists of vases, flowers, and other subjects proper to Renaissance art.
The handle and crossbars, as well as the shape of the sheath, are silver-gilt, covered with minute arabesqueornamentation forming leaves and stems, and further decorated with enamel.
This church is notable for the Chandos tombs and the elaborate ornamentation supplied by the prodigal Duke of Chandos, who was Handel’s patron as well as Hogarth’s.
The successive steps designed to facilitate, and covering the entire field of, the work to be achieved in connection with the exterior ornamentation of the Temple have for the most part been taken.
There are few faults more common in modern work, or more offensive to the educated eye, than the association of styles of lettering and styles of ornamentation warring with each other in the proprieties of both time and form.
To edifices of this character elaborate ornamentation was unnecessary; for the beauty of the column is such that nothing more is needed to set off a building.
The ornamentation consisted chiefly of balls and broad rings, and contained little that was artistic or elaborate.
The most curious and the most artistic is one which is several times repeated at Persepolis, where it forms the usual ornamentation of the triangular spaces on the facades of stairs.
The ornamentation which exists seems to show that the building was altogether of a public character.
In all these respects we observe a remarkable contrast between the Arian and the Semitic races, extreme simplicity characterizing the one, while the most elaborate ornamentation was affected by the other.
In Babylonia and Assyria, where the employment of such an ornamentation was common, the traces of it which remain are abundant.
No great ornamentation of the chariot appears to have been attempted.
Part of its ornamentation was certainly a colossal bull, though whether human-headed or not cannot be determined.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ornamentation" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
